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sector, employer organizations, trade unions, media and other relevant actors,
as applicable, to take the following actions:
Realizing women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights
(a) Consider ratifying or acceding to, as a particular matter of priority,
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and their respective
Optional Protocols, limit the extent of any reservations, formulate any such
reservations as precisely and as narrowly as possible to ensure that no
reservations are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Conventions,
review their reservations regularly with a view to withdrawing them and
withdraw reservations that are contrary to the object and purpose of the
relevant treaty, and implement them fully by, inter alia, putting in place
effective national legislation and policies;
(b) Accelerate full and effective implementation of the Beijing
Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development and its key actions for their
further implementation and the outcomes of their review conferences to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls;
(c) Eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls
through the development, where needed, adoption and accelerated and
effective implementation and monitoring of laws and comprehensive policy
measures; the removal, where they exist, of discriminatory provisions in legal
frameworks, including punitive provisions; and setting up legal, policy,
administrative and other comprehensive measures, including temporary special
measures as appropriate, to ensure women’s and girls’ equal and effective
access to justice and accountability for violations of human rights of women
and girls;
(d) Implement concrete and long-term measures to transform
discriminatory social norms and gender stereotypes, including those that limit
women’s roles to being mothers and caregivers, and eliminate harmful
practices including, inter alia, female genital mutilation and honour crimes, in
order to achieve gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment and the
full realization of the human rights of women and girls;
(e) Fully engage men and boys, including community leaders, as
strategic partners and allies in the elimination of all forms of discrimination
and violence against women and girls both in the family and in society, design
and implement national policies that aim to transform those social norms that
condone violence against women and girls, and work to counteract attitudes by
which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys, including
by understanding and addressing the root causes of gender inequality such as
unequal power relations, social norms, practices and stereotypes that
perpetuate discrimination against women and girls, and engage them in efforts
to promote and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and
girls;
(f) Acknowledge publicly the important and legitimate role of women
human rights defenders in the promotion and protection of human rights,
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